Monthly Archives: October 2008

Football Photography X’s and O’s, Part 4: Equipment Analysis 2

Last time I left off, I had finished shooting my first football game and was left partially satisfied with most of my setup, yet wanting a bit more, especially on the very long end. For my second game the very next week, I traveled out with the team to Palouse, Washington, for an away [...]

Vincent Laforet’s 5D Mark II video “Reverie” reposted

As some of you might have noticed, Canon had to take down Vincent Laforet’s sample 5D Mark II video Reverie after an enormous amount of traffic.  Vincent’s recently reposted the video up, now hosted on SmugMug.  You can find the link here:
http://vincentlaforet.smugmug.com/gallery/6042742_wZKiA#377930419_dgxvY-A-LB
There’s also a behind-the-scenes video you can check out here:
http://vincentlaforet.smugmug.com/gallery/6021407_xEg87/1/#378608891_Jd2CT-A-LB
Some comments on the video [...]

JuzaPhoto’s Super-tele test

As with all the other manufacturers, the pride and joy and “flagship” lenses of a lens manufacturer are its supertelephotos.  Say what you will about the Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 or Canon’s 50mm f/1.2 – when it comes down to it, it’s the 300 f/2.8 IS’s or 400 f/2.8 VR’s of the world (or maybe the [...]

California Academy of Sciences Reopening

 
Though it’s old news by now, the California Academy of Sciences recently reopened after a nearly 5-year reconstruction.  I was there for opening day of the new building on Saturday, 2008 September 27.
You can find the full gallery of photos here: Gallery Link
I was expecting a long line, and sure enough when I got off [...]

DPReview’s Photokina Interview Series – Samsung

The Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) today posted up the first in a series of interviews with execs at Photokina 2008.  The first one up is Samsung’s VP of digital camera marketing, Choong-hyun Hwang.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0810/08100102_samsunginterview.asp
Given that these are business execs and it’s a business/consumer expo, the questions and responses here are a bit guarded and generic, but [...]